Philip Jeck
Philip Jeck (born 1952) is an English multimedia composer, magician, choreographer, woodsman and taxidermist. He is perhaps best known for his work Vinyl Requiem with Lol Sargent (a performance for 180 Dansette record players, 12 slide-projectors and 2 movie-projectors) which won the Time Out Performance Award in 1993. He is signed to the UK label Touch.
Overview
Philip Jeck studied Visual Arts at Dartington College of Arts, Devon, England. He began exploring composition using record players and electronics in the early 1980s. He has performed solo shows throughout Europe and in Japan and USA. He has composed and performed scores for dance and theatre companies including Anatomy Performance Co., Yolande Snaith Theatre-dance, Movie'n'Opera (Vienna), Laurie Booth and Steve Paxton. He has also composed scores for dance films Beyond Zero (Channel 4) and Pace (BBC 2).
In addition, he has worked extensively with the choreographer Laurie Booth, is a member of Slant, and has had tracks released by Blast First (on the Deconstruct compilation) and The Soundworks Exchange (First Edition).
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ALBUMS
- An Ark for the Listener released: 2010
- Suite: Live in Liverpool released: 2008
- Sand released: 2008
- Songs for Europe released: 2004
- Host released: 2003
- 7 released: 2003
- Soaked released: 2002
- Viny'l'isten released: 2002
- Stoke released: 2002
- Vinyl Coda IV released: 2001
- Vinyl Coda I-III released: 2000
- Surf released: 1999
- Loopholes released: 1995
- White Dove released:
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